“Antioch, A Liberal College” — Algo D. Henderson (November 1946)

President Algo D. Henderson’s extemporaneous November 1946 remarks to the Antioch Board of Trustees and Administrative Council, reprinted in the December 1946 Antioch Alumni Bulletin. Distinguishes Antioch’s tradition of political “Liberalism” from Communism amid postwar anti-Communist pressure, and defends faculty academic freedom and activism (citing Horace Mann’s own civil-liberties record) as core to the College’s…

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Bessie Ladley Totten’s Retirement Address (1941)

Bessie Ladley Totten, class of 1900 and the College’s librarian for 40 years, delivered these remarks upon her 1941 retirement — after which she continued as Curator of Antiochiana until her death in 1963. A wry, humble reflection on a lifetime spent with Antioch’s history.

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G. Stanley Hall Recalls His Antioch Years, 1872–1876 (from “Life and Confessions of a Psychologist,” 1924)

Pioneering (later widely discredited) American psychologist G. Stanley Hall’s 1924 memoir excerpt on his four years as Antioch’s Professor of Mental Philosophy and English Literature, including his investigation into a term-paper-writing scam run out of the village, “The Great American Literary Association” — see the companion faculty resolution.

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